June 29, 1932 - January 14, 2023
The graveside service for Delmar Eugene “Gene” Gee will be 2:00pm Monday, January 16, 2023 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home. Visitation with friends and family is 6-8:00pm Sunday, January 15, 2023 at the funeral home. Gene was born June 29, 1932 in Ringwood to Jefferson Irving and Pauline (Adams) Gee and died January 14, 2023 in Oklahoma City.
He attended Ringwood schools, graduating in 1950. On March 27, 1950, he married Anita Louise Long from Ringwood. They moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he worked in the Aircraft Plants. Anita worked there (Beech Aircraft) until having children. He also worked for the Coleman Company.
They moved back to Enid in 1958 and he opened a Sinclair Station. He also worked for the City of Enid before getting hired at Champlin Refinery. He was forced to take early retirement when Champlin Refinery closed after twenty-five years.
Gene then worked for himself, restoring and painting old cars, doing mechanical work as well as helping elderly people, roofing houses and remodeling. He always enjoyed working on his own cars and lawn mowers, building onto his own house and cutting and delivering firewood. He grew up hunting and fishing, but fishing was his passion and he would give almost all of them away. Gene and Anita enjoyed their grandchildren, traveling in their motorhome and visiting relatives.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife of sixty-three years, Anita; and daughter, Sandra Albright of Houston, Texas.
Gene is survived by two daughters, Cynthia Richardson of Piedmont, OK; Patti Hawk of Enid, son, Jeff Gee and wife, Anita of Enid; nine grandchildren; twenty-two great-grandchildren; brother, Paul Gee and wife, Wanda of Ringwood as well as numerous extended family.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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